According To Tom's, My Overclock Sucks

[robAP]

So, I built my system a year ago with an Opty 165 and put it on water. the end result was 100% stable at 2.673, (boots and works but glitchy at 2.7) at that sped its roughly equivalent to the FX-62 toledo....it is the same core really. so running the comparison charts over at Tom's Hardware against the allendale 6400 at its totally stock speeds, it turns out my chip at its max stable, performs slightly less than a stock 6400......and lets not even go to the 6600-6700 level. its got nearly identical framerates in games, but in apps it takes me what...2:06 to process 200 photoshop picture resized and the 6400? 1:56. very minor but at least i found an equivalent chip to consider purchasing desicions from.

 

i hope that commparison chart was accurate. pick two chips and the benchmark to see their individual results with. and pow....it will tell you how far back your year-old technology is. I had better longevity out of my barton XPm2500+ before i felt this.....this...."passed over" (almost 2 years). how do you turn $300 into $100?...buy an opty 165 a year ago.

 

the other question? how much POWER is this costing me in daily use. you know....its costing me more electricity to run my 165 over a stock 6400. i dont have any data on this but i wonder how much power consumption my ship is requiring, and what c2d overclock would be the equivalent power consumption?......(how much faster/more powerful would that be even?)

Edited June 25, 2007 by robAP

[Silverfox]

It's alarming eh? It makes me slightly worried that my E6600 will be outdated before the year is out! I managed to get my P4 Northwood to last 4 years and play most games to an acceptable level, but I upgraded in December 06 (which was a good time for me!), when SM3 games were more common and the X800GTO couldn't hack it any more.

 

I'm crossing my fingers for a slower rate of advancing technology

[robAP]

i have good support equipment with my chip tho so im doing just find playing games. x1900xt, x-fi plat card, runs nice and cool loads below 40c, so ill be just fine for most likely another year at this point. but i really started thinking about this when i was looking at moving my opty back to air and put it in a server capacity for my house to serve and convert large files and encode DVD then burn them. and run my main as a new c2d kit. but i realised that if im going to use this server in this capacity that an efficient 6400 chip would utterly stomp a boot somewhere dark in the 165 if i put it bak on air. and im not about to run a server on water overclocked........wow. is technology moving faster or am i just getting older and seeing days go by faster? (i am at that age point where life starts becomming a fast time warp)

[Silverfox]

I'd probably say the latter!

 

That and we have reached a point at which competition is more fierce than ever, so games in particular, are more demanding than ever. My X1950XT is starting to look a bit slow with some newer games - quite alarming really! Such is the nature of the beast though. Sounds to me as if you are in a pickle! I use my old P4 Northwood as a network machine in this house, but now that I am moving, it's going to sit there redundant. Oh well. It's a spare if something goes belly-up.

 

I hope you get it sorted, more so with the impending July releases of C2D chips. Looks exciting

[hardnrg]

I was amused to find out that my IHS-removed, overclocked, overvolted, water-cooled 170 @ 2.8 GHz was just a hair-breadth faster than an E6600 at stock speed/volts

 

While the 170 power consumption is around 150-200 watts @ 1.632v, the Core2 Duo consumption is much less, around half... the stock TDP is 65W and the overvolted wattage doesn't increase all that much (air heatsink overclocks testifying to that)